Rachaq means “remove” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7368 רָחַק (rachaq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. rachaq (raw-khak') v. 1. to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation) [a primitive root] It has 56 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include remove, place, cast, they, and any. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
rachaq (raw-khak') v. 1. to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation) [a primitive root] KJV: (a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw) far (away, off), loose, X refrain, very, (be) a good way (off).
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to remove
Usage: v 1) to be or become far, be or become distant, be removed, go far away 1a) (Qal) to be far, be distant 1b) (Piel) to send far away, extend 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to make or exhibit distance, be gone far 1c2) to remove, put far away 2) (Niphal) loose v inf (as adv) 3) at a distance
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render rachaq, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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56 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
First 56 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7368.
And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
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Rachaq (Strong's H7368) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "remove". rachaq (raw-khak') v. 1. to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 56 linked usages for Strong's H7368 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7368 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as remove, place, cast, they, any, and drive. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.